An interesting selection of short stories and other writings of such authors as Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Robert Benchley, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The spine is tight; the binding has some wear, with slightly bent and worn corners, bottom edges have slight wear, the bottom and top spine ends are worn. The dark green cover has a few light spots on it, as well as wear on the vertical spine edges. 569 pages, clean and bright; one page ha... View more info

This is a collection of the author's short stories, including the title story.. Some have been previously printed in the New Yorker, some have never been printed. Included are fifteen stories. "Ann Beattie has been telling our stories for over a decade, but Where You'll Find Me takes us by surprise again and again. In these narratives familiar surfaces suddenly give way to breathtaking inner landscapes. Lyrical and compact, heartbreaking and wise, this is the music o... View more info

Drawn from the works of America's greatest contemporary writers, The Hot Spots is an erotic anthology as richly diverse as it is original. From the warmly sensual to the explosively cutting-edge, from the playfully amoral to the profoundly moving, this unabashadly carnal collection delivers the good stuff, and more. Nathan Englander enlists the services of a prostitute to release an Orthodox Jew from his oppressive sexual urges; Lydia Lunch tailgates two violent lovers o... View more info

This volume contains O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark, and Alexander's Bridge. O Pioneers! Is the classic, moving tale of the frontier; when Alexandra Bergson's father dies she is left in charge of his unsuccessful farm and her younger brothers. The unyielding land of the Nebraska Divide would be challenge enough, but a violent passion shakes this courageous woman to her core, changing her life forever. In The Song of the Lark, Thea Kronborg, an ambitious young singer,... View more info

This is a collection of nine stories written by the author. Including the title story, others include The Meadow, We Often Think of Lenin at the Clothespin Factory, The Bicycle Rider, The Ringdove Sign, and others. The New York Times called Davenport "on of our most givted and versatile man of letters. " This latest collection of his stories are a harmonious synthesis of subjects and forms. He creates fiction that is complex but unified, mature, balanced and reso... View more info

These 13 stories, focusing principally on black characters in rural N. Carolina in the early 1900's, are as affecting as they are earthy. They follow the authors favorite themes: the white man's injustice to his black neighbor, the horror of capital punishment, the power of poverty to negate hard work and good intentions. The jacket is quite scuffed but sound. It also has two tiny closed tears near the spine, as though two fingernails went through at that point. ; Octavo... View more info

A Treasury of Fear" accosts you when first you hold this book. Full of Irish tales, Satanic figures grope in the shadows, people long dead return to haunt the scenes of their lifetime, and victims fly shrieking from a doom they cannot escape. These chilling Irish takes are drawn from 200 years of short story writing and include some of the most powerful examples of horror ever conceived, more terrifying because the looming dread is felt, but understated or unseen, fo... View more info

This is a wonderful collection of stories based on love, hope and faith. Twenty-nine stories are included in this volume, such as: The Story of the Other Wise Man, A Great Rushing of Wings, Passing of the Third Floor Back, The Woodcarver of Tyrol, Secret Saint, Brother Leo, Black Rock, The Stranger's Pew, Our Lady's Juggler, Jesus Christ in Flanders, The Resurrection (from Barabbas) and so forth. And although the introduction was written over 50 years ago, it is still re... View more info

In this autobiographical series of seven moving short stories based on her experiences in Africa, Kelly James draws us into the mystery and adventure that she experienced. She navigates among warring political factions, poachers, tribesmen, witchdoctors, prostitutes, the poverty stricken, and the sick. In these pages she exposes us to a world where truth is ephemeral, where compassion, though frail, still seeps through the grit and dust. "Witchdoctor" captures a ... View more info

Imagine a universe constructed in layers: At the top is Heaven - where the gods live. Beneath is the Earth, where people dwell. And beneath the Earth lies a magical realm of witches, vampires, ghosts and immortal foxes capable of assuming human form. This is the universe of Chinese folktales. The nine tales in this book show what happens when the worlds of earth and the supernatural collide. The cast of characters, both humble and fantastic, include: A young man willing ... View more info

This volme collects for the first time in one volume nine of the writer's extraordinary stories - some long out of print and unavailable anywhere else, some never before published. From the jungles of Borneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-town fight clubs to a Parisian cafe at the end of World War II, these are tales of betrayal and revenge, courage and cowardice, glory and greed, as only Louis l'Amour can tell them. Nine stories are incuded: The ... View more info

Winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. This book contains all of the stories of Roxie Stoner that have previously, for the most part, been printed in the New Yorker for several years. Through a unique use of language and extraordinary insight, Berry Morgan succeeds in illuminating the small world of an old, near saintly colored woman (the word "black" had not entered Roxie's vocabulary) and in making that world fascinating and significant. It is ... View more info

Donald has a mother who is both kind and resourceful. When Donald has a painful encounter with a tree, his mother knows just what to do. This is #1 of a planned series of Donald books. At the end Petere Neumeyer talks of the creative process undertaken with Gorey, and their friendship. Unpaginated, this book has a reinforced binding. Fully illustrated in black & white. 16mo - over 5Â¾" - 6Â¾" tall. View more info

In this collection of short stories, the author probes the pain and joy of raising children, the allure of illicit love, the ordeal of divore, as well as more subtle events - the small but often exquisitely painful betrayals that litter the course of a life. But in her world, grace too can be near at hand, and Robinson balances harrowing portraits with stories that discover the possibility of reunion and renewel, and moments of transcendent loveliness that promise, and d... View more info

Beautiful anthology of novels by great writers, such as John Steinbeck, Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus, Willa Cather and many more. This book appears never to have been read; there is no blemish or tear on the jacket or binding. ; 8vo - over 7Â¾ - 9Â¾" tall View more info

1957; HB with DJ. Edited by John Beecroft. Jacket has several chips and small tears along top and bottom. Binding itself is very good, one small dent mark at bottom. Comprised of three complete novels (Alice Adams, Penrod, The Magnificent Ambersons) as well as 7 short stories and 3 portions from other novels. 732 pages, lightly yellowed from age. 5.75" x 8.5" high. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. View more info

This issue of Mandala was winner of the 1979 Scholastic Press Forum's Pegasus Award for Best Magazine. Twenty schools from the New England-New York-New Jersey region competed for the top prize at American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts on March 12, 1979. They also won the small schools division for Poetry, Layout and Design, and Best Magazine. 152 pages of short stories, poetry, artwork, and other literary work are presented in this magazine. An intere... View more info

With her trademark humor and insight, the author has written a moving collection of stories, anecdotes, and poems that remind us of the life lessons we learn as we repaint, refurnish, and redecorate in search of a place to settle down. Here are all the paths to our dream houses. And to the lives and loves we make there. It's been said that no woman ever met a man or a house she couldn't make over, but this wise little book shows us that what we are really making over is ... View more info

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